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LIRR is a nightmare. Never mind their failure to enforce masks. They can't manage to run trains on time and forget about it if you have to get a connection at Jamaica. I swear they are making up invisible train connections and forcing people to wait 20 min, a half hour, sometimes longer to get their connection. I have spent more time waiting for connecting trains then it should take for the entire commute. The posted train schedules aren't even right. It shows your train arriving at Jamaica at 6 and departing 3 minutes later, but either your train actually arrives at 545 and you wind up standing there an extra 15 min that they don't show on the schedule, or the connection doesn't actually arrive until 20 minutes later and the schedule pretends there is an earlier train that never actually arrives or just blows right through without waiting for your train. They are a bloody mess. If you absolutely don't have to commute by train _ don't do it. It will add at least 4 hours of frustration and anxiety to your workday.
Last edited by chattyneighbor; 04-01-2021 at 07:44 PM..
LIRR is a nightmare. Never mind their failure to enforce masks. They can't manage to run trains on time and forget about it if you have to get a connection at Jamaica. I swear they are making up invisible train connections and forcing people to wait 20 min, a half hour, sometimes longer to get their connection. I have spent more time waiting for connecting trains then it should take for the entire commute. The posted train schedules aren't even right. It shows your train arriving at Jamaica at 6 and departing 3 minutes later, but either your train actually arrives at 545 and you wind up standing there an extra 15 min that they don't show on the schedule, or the connection doesn't actually arrive until 20 minutes later and the schedule pretends there is an earlier train that never actually arrives or just blows right through without waiting for your train. They are a bloody mess. If you absolutely don't have to commute by train _ don't do it. It will add at least 4 hours of frustration and anxiety to your workday.
isnt Biden Harris giving a few billion to MTA? that should fix LIRR too
LIRR is a nightmare. Never mind their failure to enforce masks. They can't manage to run trains on time and forget about it if you have to get a connection at Jamaica. I swear they are making up invisible train connections and forcing people to wait 20 min, a half hour, sometimes longer to get their connection. I have spent more time waiting for connecting trains then it should take for the entire commute. The posted train schedules aren't even right. It shows your train arriving at Jamaica at 6 and departing 3 minutes later, but either your train actually arrives at 545 and you wind up standing there an extra 15 min that they don't show on the schedule, or the connection doesn't actually arrive until 20 minutes later and the schedule pretends there is an earlier train that never actually arrives or just blows right through without waiting for your train. They are a bloody mess. If you absolutely don't have to commute by train _ don't do it. It will add at least 4 hours of frustration and anxiety to your workday.
While I agree the LIRR is a total sht show in every way, the mask comment is completely wrong. I see EVERYONE wearing a mask on the train everyday. I love how people like to make up stories just to make things seem worse. On that note, Friday was my last day on the POS LIRR. Finally working closer to home.
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